LEADER 02645nam 22005413a 450 001 9910332652103321 005 20211214195616.0 010 $a0-8101-2930-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000008965381 035 $a(OAPEN)1005248 035 $a(ScCtBLL)022eb841-8d5c-4a3f-ac5c-ec964381f282 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32773 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008965381 100 $a20211214i20132019 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auuuuu---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aViolent Modernists : $eThe Aesthetics of Destruction in Twentieth-Century German Literature /$fKai Evers 210 $aEvanston, Illinois$cNorthwestern University Press$d2013 210 1$aChicago :$cNorthwestern University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (1 p.) 311 $a0-8101-2962-0 327 $aModernity, modernism, and violence -- Causing violence: Robert Musil's The confusions of young Torless and the path to an antireductionist theory of violence -- War, violence, and the malleable self: Robert Musil's postwar critique of violence in The man without qualities -- Kafka's poetics of the knife: on violence, truth, and ambivalence in In the penal colony -- Chemical warfare and destructive satires: Canetti and Benjamin's search for the murderous substance of satire. 330 $aKai Evers's Violent Modernists: The Aesthetics of Destruction in Twentieth-Century German Literature develops a new understanding of German modernism that moves beyond the oversimplified dichotomy of an avant-garde prone to aggression on the one hand and a modernism opposed to violence on the other. Analyzing works by Robert Musil, Franz Kafka, Karl Kraus, Walter Benjamin, Elias Canetti, and others, Evers argues that these authors are among the most innovative thinkers on violence and its impact on contemporary concepts of the self, history, and society. 606 $aLiterary Criticism / European / German$2bisacsh 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 610 $aLiterature 610 $aGermany 610 $aMusil 610 $aKafka 610 $aBenjamin 610 $aKraus 610 $aCanetti 610 $aTwentieth 610 $aAesthetics 610 $aDestruction 615 7$aLiterary Criticism / European / German 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 676 $a833/.9109 700 $aEvers$b Kai$0904799 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910332652103321 996 $aViolent Modernists$92023482 997 $aUNINA